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Ridgway's rail: Rallus obsoletus Ridgway, 1874: 18 Clapper rail: Rallus crepitans Gmelin, JF, 1789: 19 Aztec rail: Rallus tenuirostris Ridgway, 1874: 20 Mangrove rail: Rallus longirostris Boddaert, 1783: 21 King rail: Rallus elegans Audubon, 1834: 22 Plain-flanked rail: Rallus wetmorei Zimmer, JT & Phelps, WH, 1944: 23 Virginia rail: Rallus ...
The Guam rail is an example of an island species that has been badly affected by introduced species. Some larger, more abundant rails are hunted and their eggs collected for food. [ 25 ] The Wake Island rail was hunted to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison after the island was cut off from supply during World War II . [ 26 ]
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Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus). Rallus is a genus of wetland birds of the rail family.Sometimes, the genera Lewinia and Gallirallus are included in it. Six of the species are found in the Americas, and the three species found in Eurasia, Africa and Madagascar are very closely related to each other, suggesting they are descended from a single invasion of a New World ancestor.
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Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family. The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species. [2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance". [3]
The nest is a raised platform built with marsh vegetation and covered by a canopy.This is to hide the eggs of this bird from predators that are searching from above. [3]The king rail interbreeds with the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans) where their ranges overlap; It can be argued that these two birds belong to the same species according to the biological species concept.